White House says there'd be 'no better addition' to Mount Rushmore than Trump

[dalton99a]

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-heads-mount-rushmore-kick-off-america-250/story?id=134443201

White House says there'd be 'no better addition' to Mount Rushmore than Trump ahead of 250 celebration
Trump will deliver remarks at the famed national memorial on Friday night.
By Alexandra Hutzler and Nicholas Kerr
July 3, 2026, 5:00 PM

Trump is set to deliver remarks at the famed national monument at 8:30 p.m. local time, 10:30 p.m. Eastern.

Ahead of the trip, the White House suggested Trump could be an "addition" to the mountain where the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham ​Lincoln are etched.

"There would be no better addition to the iconic Mount Rushmore than the 45th and 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump," White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said in a statement to ABC News.

Trump has previously mused about putting his likeness on the granite peak. He called it a "good idea" on social media in 2020. But so far in his second term, there's been no significant movement toward making that a reality.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5222612-doug-burgum-mount-rushmore-trump/

Burgum says ‘they certainly have room for’ Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore
by Lauren Irwin - 03/30/25 4:17 PM ET

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he “certainly” believes that there’s enough room on Mount Rushmore for President Trump’s face.

Burgum joined Trump’s daughter-in-law and new Fox News host Lara Trump for an interview that aired on her show “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday.

His appearance came just days after President Trump signed an executive order that gave Burgum the power to determine if public monuments, memorials or statues removed during the Biden administration give a “false construction” of American history.

“The Department of Interior is in charge of the National Park Service,” Lara Trump said. “The National Park Services is in charge of Mount Rushmore. A lot of people wonder, will we ever see President Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore? What do you think?”

“Well, they certainly have room for it there,” Burgum replied.

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Work on Mount Rushmore will begin shortly

[Lovie777]

1. Vote these people out.................................

[Rhiannon12866]

2. You have got to be kidding...

[3catwoman3]

3. I'll change the word order and add two to make "there'd be 'no better addition'...

..into, "There'd damned well better be NO addition...".

[Boo1]

4. Whatever he puts up

The next Democrat can knock down.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. An addition would make the structure unstable

That and he doesn't deserve the honor. Obama and JFK would be more deserving candidates.

[allegorical oracle]

10. That's what I read the last time he tried to pull this stunt. The rock is brittle

and given his record of ruining anything he comes near, the whole top of Rushmore could tumble to the ground.

[Johonny]

15. Thats why Im all for it

South Dakota deserves Trump fucking up their tourist attraction. LOL

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. Lol

Okay

[C_U_L8R]

6. That would be so trump

for that fool to go fuck up Mount Rushmore.

[delisen]

7. I could go for a fossilized Trump monument on a pile of rocks

Trump really does not care about legacy or monuments after his demise. He is iotally materialistic and as long as he is stealing money and getting even with perceived enemies, he is satisfied. We are his enemies. Destroying our capital is done to make us squeal while he siphons off money from corrupt contracting. Our pain is his joy.

[dem4decades]

8. Destroy Mount Rushmore when adding Trump would be perfect.

The nation would forever remember Trump for ruining it and no one would ever have to visit North Dakota again. Then it could dry up and blow away, or freeze up and blow away, i don't really care.

[thought crime]

18. It's a shallow road-side attraction.

It's real value was performing as a prop in the film, North by Northwest. In that sense, it is a symbol of a great film era.

[sarisataka]

9. I agree

put a little platform on Mt Rushmore that he can sit on. Lower food and water by basket to him every day. He can sit there for as long as he lives; afterwards we will find out if there is anything even vultures won't eat.

[oasis]

11. Bandini Mountain more fitting. A pile of manure.

[eShirl]

12. I can see it now: no-bid contract, shoddy work, everything crumbles and tumbles down.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Epstein. Putin. Mogilevich. Dimdonniechucklenuts.

[Vinca]

14. Just rename the Mt. Rushmore port-a-potties after him.

[themaguffin]

16. Fucking assholes. Nobody has been asking for any addition

[Cha]

19. Uh huh. Too bad he can't put

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his actual head up there.

Encrusted in gold, of course.

[Blue Owl]

28. Dangling from a long chain, knocking and slamming into the granite with every wind gust

[Cha]

29. Even Better! That would be

just desserts.

A super unpleasant fate.

[bdamomma]

20. This is what

I'm doing the thought of this is:

WTF, effing dic.....tator. Ruining our country with the help other treasonous SOB's in our Congress who have no backbone!!!

[spanone]

21. Burgum's turn to kiss his more than ample ass.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. His Brain Is Already Up There

Just to the left of Washington or the right of Lincoln.
Solid granite!

[Crunchy Frog]

23. If it happens, somebody'd better blow it up.

I'm sick of all the vandalism against our country.

[kentuck]

24. They can give the pool guy the contract to put his mug on Rushmore...

Surely nothing would go wrong??

[milestogo]

25. I'd rather see the whole thing as a pile of dust than to have him on it.

[chicoescuela]

26. Barf

[Blue Owl]

27. Isn't there an unwritten No Pedophiles clause?

[Wiz Imp]

30. In case you had any doubt that Burgum was deeply unqualified for his position...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he “certainly” believes that there’s enough room on Mount Rushmore for President Trump’s face.

https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2026/06/10/fact-brief-is-it-possible-add-fifth-face-mount-rushmore/?fbclid=IwY2xjawS2U6hleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFDRUxMRTF6ZTRGNUdSa0Z6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHqRG8QTHuLT5zfFbGW5xjDsVeFDpEXTD0RczjeUxTTHZ_RoBbu8W4Wuukv3X_aem_IO5vCl4sR3p-wUo5kB8Kfw

Fact brief: Is it possible to add a fifth face to Mount Rushmore?
No.

Despite calls for presidents such as Reagan, Obama, Trump or others to be added as a fifth face onto Mount Rushmore, it’s not possible.

“There is no more carvable space up on the sculpture,” the landmark’s public information officer said in 2020, adding that it’s one of the most common questions park employees receive.

Then-U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem recalled President Trump telling her in his first term that it was his “dream” to be on Mount Rushmore. Noem said she started to laugh, assuming he was joking, but that he was “totally serious.”

Trump has made several references to being on Mount Rushmore over the years, including sharing in May an AI-generated image of himself on the mountain next to Lincoln.

Besides, the background of the sculpture is troubling to say the least.

Mount Rushmore's sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, held nativist, anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, and deeply antisemitic views that are documented in his correspondence and writings.[111][112][113] Prior to his involvement with the Rushmore memorial, Borglum had been the original sculptor of the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Georgia, a project backed and partially funded by the Ku Klux Klan.[112][113] Borglum was heavily involved with the Klan during this period; he befriended several of its national leaders, served on the organization's committees, and even mediated in factional disputes, though there is no documentary proof that he ever formally joined.[112] Historians have varied in their assessment of Borglum's involvement with the Klan. Howard and Audrey Shaff describe him as motivated less by racism than by opportunism and the need to maintain the financial backing of his Stone Mountain patron Samuel Venable, though also by an affinity for the Klan as an agrarian and populist movement.[114] John Taliaferro and Matthew Davis, by contrast, argue that his prejudices were preexisting and deeply held, with Taliaferro noting that his racist views only became more virulent through his affinity with the Klan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore

[Trueblue1968]

31. It. Will never happen !!!!!!!

[Towlie]

32. Good idea, wrong mountain.

Instead put Trump on Stone Mountain in Georgia alongside the three other losers, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.

[riversedge]

33. "..... most geologists would agree there is no space left for another president......

...............Matthew Davis, author of A Biography of a Mountain: The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore, told Newsweek that most geologists would agree there is no space left for another president.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-returns-to-mount-rushmore-amid-push-to-have-his-face-added/ar-AA27amIx

“The idea is not very realistic, unless Trump would replace a current president or have a smaller face,” he said. “Plus, I think President Trump is an incredibly divisive president, and putting his face on Rushmore would limit its audience.”

[Initech]

34. Fucking hell no!

I am sick of President Main Character trying to put his shit on everything.

[riversedge]

35. whow. I did not know Lara Trump was a new Fox News host. whow CRAP!!

Burgum joined Trump’s daughter-in-law and new Fox News host Lara Trump for an interview that aired on her show “My View with Lara Trump” on Saturday.

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“The Department of Interior is in charge of the National Park Service,” Lara Trump said. “The National Park Services is in charge of Mount Rushmore. A lot of people wonder, will we ever see President Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore? What do you think?”